{"id":432,"date":"2026-03-04T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/?p=432"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:47:12","slug":"a-seminal-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 1: A Seminal Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Professor Philip Gulliver,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me begin with an introduction, I am a mortuary technician, age 32, and I have an unusual problem with which you may be able to help. I don\u2019t mean to boast but my memory is better preserved than a corpse in a steel casket. Every moment of my life is vivid as a cock\u2019s crow, all the way back to infancy. Though I sometimes wish I could get rid of the boring memories like everyone else does, the memory itself isn\u2019t the problem I\u2019d like to ask about. You see, sometimes I tell doctors about my condition and my oh my are they a curious lot when they hear about it. It\u2019s as though I\u2019m slowly transforming into a big flashing red sign which reads \u201cCASE STUDY!!!\u201d. But then, just as they are salivating over the paper they might be able to publish about me, I hit them with my coup de grace. I tell them that not only can I remember how many times I flushed the toilet on February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2008 (4 times plus one extra to wash away an unusually sticky poo), not only can I remember the disappointment when mom stopped breast feeding me, and not only can I remember my own birth, but I remember being a sperm. Yes, a wriggling, wormy little cell in my father\u2019s testicle (though I can\u2019t recall if it was left or right). That was the life I tell you. I was hooked up to dozens of other cells by these ports which we used to share all sorts of nourishment. These were my brothers and sisters, each to become its own sperm. Oh the camaraderie I sensed! It was one for all, and all for one among the seminal ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started out fat and round, just like any old cell, but then shrank ourselves down, spitting out our insides, bit by bit. At the same time, we grew these great, long tails. At first, me and every sperm I was joined with were packed tight, surrounded on all sides by other cells. By the time enough bells had been rung and we\u2019d all been blessed with tails though, we were on the border of a deep cavity, ready to be set loose into the great, wide world. But before that could happen I would have to sever ties with my brothers and sisters. Now I didn\u2019t want to be all alone like that but I hardly had much of a choice, dropped out into the murky goo where I would spend the next day or two paddling around and getting my bearings. It was a pretty boring place really and there wasn\u2019t much to see since it was so dark in dad\u2019s gonads. Pretty lonely too. I would sometimes bump into a brother here or a sister there but it wasn\u2019t the same as before. We had grown up and couldn\u2019t depend on each other like before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencesource.com\/pix\/106\/1066569_t.jpg\" alt=\"Human sperm cells, under a microscope | Stock Image - Science Source Images\" \/><figcaption>Me and my homies back in the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually though, just before I was about to go belly up with the hum drum of it all, a great churning, and rushing started carrying me along, up through this tube, out though a spurting orifice, and into a space so vast and awe inspiring I still dream of it to this day. But there wasn\u2019t much time at all to enjoy this freedom. Ahead of me, I sensed something which compelled me forward with a determination I haven\u2019t been able to match since. It was the cure to all which ailed me, all the loneliness and boredom I\u2019d experienced since leaving the embrace of my siblings could be made right as long as I made it to that thing first. Ha! How na\u00efve. You really can\u2019t expect much wisdom of a sperm cell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there I was, all caught up in a desperate race with a hundred million of my siblings, making a mad dash up my mother-to-be&#8217;s unmentionables. At the time I had no conception of the stakes, that continued life would only be granted to a single one of us and the rest would swim themselves to death. One in a hundred million may as well be impossible by my adult reckoning but as a sperm those odds did nothing to daunt me. Somehow, I must have been swimming at the front of our great horde, though I had no thought of my position at the time. All I knew was how that alluring sensation got stronger and stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then\u2026 Bam! I ran right into it, turned out to be an egg. I must have been the first, no other way I could be writing to you. Pretty impressive eh? First out of the hundred million sperm\u2019s 6 inch freestyle. Regardless, I could belabor all the gory details of being a fetus but, long story short, it started to get a bit stuffy in there after nine months so I stuck my head out for a breath of fresh air and found, much to my dismay, that you weren\u2019t allowed back in afterward. This would lead to a whole host of neuroses as I matured which were not helped when the doctors would recommend me to a psychiatrist after hearing this rundown. Last time this happened I recommended the doctor do much the same, seeking treatment for being a smart-ass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png 560w, https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-300x274.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption>Dude, put me back.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why I have come to you, Professor, all these doctors think I\u2019m a raging, ranting loon and that all the formaldehyde has done a number on my brain. How silly of them. As you can see from my letter, I am a well spoken, respectable, and productive member of society. All I need from you is a touch of academic wisdom. As an acclaimed expert in sperm would you kindly review my account and ensure that they are indeed memories of my spermhood? Any help is much appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humbly,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony Hook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Professor Philip Gulliver, Let me begin with an introduction, I am a mortuary technician, age 32, and I have<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/?p=432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chapter 1: A Seminal Moment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keet.one\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}